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Mario Lanzas @mariolanzas.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

🪸Artechocene Explorer🐬🪸 - Alejandro M. Fluxá🦖 @artechoexplorer.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Adventurers beware when wandering near bodies of water, as they might encounter an apparently innocent, ethereal looking horse. It might look friendly and approachable, but will drag and consume under the water anyone as soon as it gets the chance: the Kelpie (Abyssohippus falaciter). #dungeonmeshi

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🪸Artechocene Explorer🐬🪸 - Alejandro M. Fluxá🦖 @artechoexplorer.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

A little piece I did last year, baby ammonites from Prehistoric Planet season 2, I absolutely LOVED this episode, and these cuties were definitely my favourite part :> #paleoart#prehistoricplanet

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🪸Artechocene Explorer🐬🪸 - Alejandro M. Fluxá🦖 @artechoexplorer.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

•Sandabblers (Psammobenthavinae): A cosmopolitan anatid subfamily of diving soft sediment specialists that can be found in both fresh and saltwater ecosystems, but the majority are often associated with soft sediment ocean shores. #speculativeevolution #specevo #birds #seabird

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•Mergeese (Sirenianseridae): Aquatic grazers very specialised for their lifestyle, with a large crop that is used for fermenting the plant material. Because of this diet, they're highly associated with seagrass meadows in the Indo-Pacific, Caribbean and European regions.

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•Anatorants (Sulanatidae): A flying, basal offshoot of the phociornithiformes, presenting a similar morphology as their relatives but less specialised. Given their flight capabilities, they're found much more widespread than their northern relatives, extending far into the southern hemisphere.

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🪸Artechocene Explorer🐬🪸 - Alejandro M. Fluxá🦖 @artechoexplorer.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

•Seahens (Littogallidae): Omnivores found in areas not far from the coast of every continent. They are diverse and occupy a wide variety of niches, specialising on different diets depending on the available resources.

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•Taorns (Hastanhinga sp.): A pantropical genus highly associated with clamoral reefs and other high diversity, shallow water ecosystems, slowly stalking prey hidden in crevices or substrate with pinpoint precision.

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•Shellpeckers (Mergupicidae): One of the few non-gull marine charadriiformes left, these have taken a rather unique approach to a durophagous diet, using a strong beak and a hammering motion to open the shellfish it dives for.

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•Wakageese (Wakaereformes): A basal offshoot of the waterfowl clade, it has evolved a unique style of swimming and very specialised, hydrodynamic feathering. It evolved isolated on Antarctica soon after it started to thaw, and is now distributed mostly around the southern ocean.

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•Basketgulls (Pelecanoidae): Another voracious, but unrelated group of birds, closer to cacklers, found offshore on every ocean except for the arctic. Better flyers, they usually plunge into the water to catch shoals of small prey.

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🪸Artechocene Explorer🐬🪸 - Alejandro M. Fluxá🦖 @artechoexplorer.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

•Bagshags (Euryrhamphinae): A diving predator capable of gulping down fish larger than itself, these voracious, near flightless birds can be found in coasts and freshwater systems of the tropics and temperate areas of the world.

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🪸Artechocene Explorer🐬🪸 - Alejandro M. Fluxá🦖 @artechoexplorer.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

•Kelp Ruddies (Phycophaganatidae): Specialised algae grazing ducks distributed along the cold coasts of every continent except Africa.

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•Labrosone Geese (Auloceratidae): Waterfowl with a unique nasal structure, some marine species can be found along the coasts of Afro-Eurasia. •Windtellers (Aequoelanus sp.): A genus of kites that can be found offshore of coastal forests across the world, lunging on fish too close to the surface.

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•Titan Gulls (Laroposeidonidae): The largest of the seabirds, these long distance flyers can be found on the open ocean across the southern hemisphere and the Pacific Ocean.

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•Coast Cacklers (Neolaridae): A living fossil amongst the full clade, they're generalist predators found in coasts and open seas all across the world, from pole to pole.

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•Penmorants (Pinguriliiformes): Fully flightless cormorants, these are much more widespread and pelagic, being able to be spotted in the open ocean in every region, but with the highest diversity being in the northern hemisphere. Unlike vessel birds, these need to come back to land to breed.

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•Balamars (Balaornithidae): Another cosmopolitan member of the gull clade, they are adapted for speed, being able to plunge dive and pursue prey at incredible velocity.

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•Shagseals (Phociornithiformes): They include the largest seabirds of the Artechocene. This is due to their dense bones, which they use to swim along the seafloor at depth to feed. To breed, they must come out to land, there they use a specialised armpit pouch to brood the eggs and young.

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🪸Artechocene Explorer🐬🪸 - Alejandro M. Fluxá🦖 @artechoexplorer.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

•Umibozulles (Bathostyxiformes): A unique offshoot of the gull clade native to the Pacific, Arctic and north Atlantic regions, these fully nocturnal seabirds are extremely cryptic and hard to see, leaving their colonies at night to dive and incredible depths in search of invertebrates and fish.

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🪸Artechocene Explorer🐬🪸 - Alejandro M. Fluxá🦖 @artechoexplorer.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

•Seadrakes (Thescelodyptidae): A family of very diverse, cosmopolitan sea ducks found mostly in cold oceans, that are characterised by their colorful males and hardened papillae inside of of their mouths, specialised for each species' diet.

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🪸Artechocene Explorer🐬🪸 - Alejandro M. Fluxá🦖 @artechoexplorer.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

•Harpansers (Dinomergidae): Found mostly around the northern hemisphere, these sea ducks are specialised fish eaters that can dive and swim particularly well in large groups, coordinating to hunt down entire schools.

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🪸Artechocene Explorer🐬🪸 - Alejandro M. Fluxá🦖 @artechoexplorer.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

•Corsairfishers (Piratosagipterines): Kingfishers relatives that use kleptoparasitism as one of their main feeding strategies, often following larger, more specialised seabirds.

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🪸Artechocene Explorer🐬🪸 - Alejandro M. Fluxá🦖 @artechoexplorer.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

•Dumingos (Anabalaenidae): A cosmopolitan group of filter feeding ducks, they are typically found in inland waters, but a few species, like the sea dumingo (Pinnatocetus celer), have been able to exploit its endless amount of plankton.

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•Sea Songbirds (Thalassopasseridae): A unique family of passeriformes found mostly around the southern hemisphere, the scallywags (Pelagopasser sp.) are a genus of open ocean specialists that are found on every ocean except the Arctic, gliding on the surface to feed on small planktonic prey.

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🪸Artechocene Explorer🐬🪸 - Alejandro M. Fluxá🦖 @artechoexplorer.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

•Kitegulls (Milvulari): Close relatives of cacklers, they are long distance flyers, feeding on surface prey and rarely landing, only to breed on isolated islands across their expansive range in temperate and tropical oceans worldwide.

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🪸Artechocene Explorer🐬🪸 - Alejandro M. Fluxá🦖 @artechoexplorer.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

•Vesselbirds (Caravelorniformes): A widespread group of the largest of the Artechocene seabirds, they have abandoned land completely, brooding being taken care of by a specialised structure on the male's back that acts as a nest.

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🪸Artechocene Explorer🐬🪸 - Alejandro M. Fluxá🦖 @artechoexplorer.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Seabirds of the Artechocene Oceans: The Anthropogenic Extinction Event was devastating for ocean ecosystems and the seabirds that relied on it, with only a few groups surviving the event. 39my later, life has recovered and now new seabird groups dominate the seas: (info below👇)

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🪸Artechocene Explorer🐬🪸 - Alejandro M. Fluxá🦖 @artechoexplorer.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

OMG I LOVE THIS!!! This might be a signal to come back to bluesky lol

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Rudolf Hima @himarudolf.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

The Words You Say A commune of Homo floresiensis on the beach of Flores island 75.000 years ago.

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🪸Artechocene Explorer🐬🪸 - Alejandro M. Fluxá🦖 @artechoexplorer.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

When travelling in open water by boat, adventurers beware of a creature capable of killing sailors from a distance, luring them into the water to eat them using their unique, possibly vocalisations: the Mermaid (Sirena uroscelis). Another Dungeon Meshi piece, hope you like it! :>

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🪸Artechocene Explorer🐬🪸 - Alejandro M. Fluxá🦖 @artechoexplorer.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

A species adventurers dread to encounter in the dungeon, not necessarily because of the direct danger they pose, but because of the possibilities their presence indicates, either the larger predators they follow or the disease their feces can spread: the Harpy (Foeminornis gynotops). #dungeonmeshi

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Eduardo Valdés-Hevia 👁️ @valdevia.art · 11/02/2025

Incubomurum domus, commonly known as "house meat", is an amorphous vertebrate that lodges itself in the empty spaces of buildings. Originally evolved in caves, it quickly adapted to human dwellings and their ample feeding opportunities. They may also cause structural instabilities to the foundation.

An office ceiling with drop tiles. Some of the tiles have been removed, revealing a large fleshy mass that encompasses the whole space. It is intertwined with the rods, cables and piping of the building.

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🪸Artechocene Explorer🐬🪸 - Alejandro M. Fluxá🦖 @artechoexplorer.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Slithering through the lush reefs and seagrass meadows of the Indian Ocean lurks a slow, calculating predator, one of the biggest and most dangerous one can find in these waters. The largest non-tiamat snake of the Artechocene, the Tyrant Shesha (Nagaraja imperator).

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Eduardo Valdés-Hevia 👁️ @valdevia.art · 23/01/2025

Thanks to @ranboo.bsky.social for having me on to participate in the Generation Loss project! I made a bunch of images you can find throughout the website www.thefoundergame.com!

A red glitchy ghost with square glasses and a hat opens a window, looking at the viewer.

A high school classroom. Several desks and books appear to be levitating.

A red glitchy ghost stands in a void, surrounded by various floating shards of glass and objects that belong to a classroom, a fairground and an arcade.

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Narwhaler @narwhaler.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

He who brings devastation

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Eqüietum @equietumart.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Symbiotic Relationship

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🪸Artechocene Explorer🐬🪸 - Alejandro M. Fluxá🦖 @artechoexplorer.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Had a lot of fun with the Dryads, so I'm making another dungeon Meshi piece :>

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🪸Artechocene Explorer🐬🪸 - Alejandro M. Fluxá🦖 @artechoexplorer.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Growing in the lower levels on surfaces with enough light and water available, the Dryad plant (Anthaie anthropoides) may first seem like unassuming vines. However, the wonder, and danger, of this plant comes during its flowering stage, with complex mobile flowers ready to attack would-be threats.

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🪸Artechocene Explorer🐬🪸 - Alejandro M. Fluxá🦖 @artechoexplorer.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Sketching some Artechocene herbivore ideas: a frilled deer which grow multiple antlers around it; a venomous small antelope that whose toxins derive from its diet; an ungulate that uses neural spines with keratin tubercles to fight conspecifics and predators and a brotopakinus, an aquatic hyrax.

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Bugs@Bibliowrecks.Podcast @bugs-bibliowrecks.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Really interesting article about animals that died from eating prey that was too large

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𝕲𝖔𝖉𝖎𝖛𝖆 𝕲𝖍𝖔𝖚𝖑 @godivaghoul.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

hello, back to drawing

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Nicholas Kole @nicholaskole.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Just before things started to nosedive on twitter, I posted a thread that walked through the massive body of work I did over the last three years (on an inspiring team) on the cancelled Project Dragon aka Everhaven. For posterity I reckon I'll repost that thread, piece by piece, over here ✨

colorful key splash art for Project Dragon- a group of adventurers (a musical ocarina golem, a rider mounted on a wyvern, a dimunutive cat person and a pet pinoceros) crest a hill over a sun-drenched landscape with billowing clouds and distant ruins. In the sky above, a character composed of constellations spreads their 6 arms and welcomes them to the world.

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Mortimer @webvein.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

No one: Still no one: Me: What if leaf tailed gecko, but the leaf is carnivorous? #specevo #specbio #sciart #lizard #uroplatus #leaftailedgecko

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Petite Paleoartist | Sauriazoicillus @ppaleoartist.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

first art of 2025 is a fish! starting off strong a female Oncorhynchus rastrosus, the spike-toothed salmon. it's commonly misrepresented as a massive sockeye salmon with tusks slapped on, but we know that they didnt undergo any drastic levels of sexually dimorphic remodelling #sciart #fishart

A female Oncorhynchus rastrosus swims infront of the camera in cloudy water full of plankton

O. rastrosus is a massive extinct salmon that reached around 2.5m in size, it's also called the spike-toothed salmon due to the two teeth on its top jaw jutting out to the sides, these were present on all individuals. it was a planktivore like its extant relatives O. keta and O. nerka

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Dynamognathus @dynamoterror.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

A late addition to this series of concept sketches for my personal Kerguela project: some Cenozoic critters. Beaked sloths, giant Parankylosaurs, non-mammalian cynodonts, and much more. #specevo #art #cenozoic

A collection of black-and-white pencil sketches of fictional animals, mostly in side view. Many are mammals of various shapes and sizes, plus a large Terror Bird and a carp-like fish among others.

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Mark Witton @markwitton.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

I've been lousy at posting new art this year, so here's something #paleoart -related that I've been tinkering with between other jobs. What is this weird, #dinosaur -like animal? My patrons know (rattle rattle: www.patreon.com/markwitton), and you might too, one day. #sciart

A peculiar, green, beaked predator runs on two legs after a small racoon-like creature through a forested clearing. The predator has a savage-looking hooked bill and a long, angular face, and has subtle vertical striping with light undersides. The smaller animal has a dark "bandit mask" and fluffy tail. It is scared.

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